On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote: > Robert Heller wrote: >> At Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:13:06 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is there any way I can read a .docx file on my CentOS desktop ? >> >> A .docx is a ZIP file with some XML files in the archive. One of those >> XML files contains the *text* of the document. One can use an XML >> processing program to strip off the XML, leaving the bare textual >> content. It will be unformatted, though. > > You need openoffice "novell" version from: http://go-oo.org/ > Not really - OO 3.1 for Linux and (gag) Windows reads them just fine. mhr